Linux Kernel Markers: document format string
Describes the format string standard further: Use of field names before the
type specifiers..
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/markers.txt b/Documentation/markers.txt
index 295a71b..d9f50a1 100644
--- a/Documentation/markers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/markers.txt
@@ -35,12 +35,14 @@
And,
-trace_mark(subsystem_event, "%d %s", someint, somestring);
+trace_mark(subsystem_event, "myint %d mystring %s", someint, somestring);
Where :
- subsystem_event is an identifier unique to your event
- subsystem is the name of your subsystem.
- event is the name of the event to mark.
-- "%d %s" is the formatted string for the serializer.
+- "myint %d mystring %s" is the formatted string for the serializer. "myint" and
+ "mystring" are repectively the field names associated with the first and
+ second parameter.
- someint is an integer.
- somestring is a char pointer.